OP18 Green Luffy Leader (OP18-022): Effect and Deck Guide

OP18 release date and leader list

Bandai's English product page lists OP18 for 20 November 2026, at an MSRP of US$4.99 per pack, with “127+1 types in total”. Bandai's Japanese page dates the Japanese edition 21 November 2026. The set's themes are the Water Seven arc and the Holy Knights of God, and Bandai names Saint Gunko and Saint Shamrock as its card game debuts. Its cards are tournament legal seven days after release, and at a local store's pre-release events from the pre-release date.

The Leaders TCGplayer lists for OP18 so far:

Full set details: the OP18 The Dominance of God card list, every card priced as stores list it.

What the green Luffy leader does

Monkey.D.Luffy, OP18-022, Leader, Green

• Life: 5
• Power: 5000
• Attribute: Strike (reported)
• Types: Straw Hat Crew / Water Seven (reported)

Reported text (16 October 2026):

[DON!! ×3] [When Attacking] [Once Per Turn] You may set this Leader as active. If you do, this Leader will not become active in your next Refresh Phase.

In plain English:

1. Give Luffy at least 3 DON!!. Each DON!! given adds 1000 power during your turn (Comprehensive Rules 6-5-5-2), so he attacks at 8000 or more.
2. When he attacks, you can set him active straight away.
3. Because he is active again, he can attack a second time that turn. Given DON!! stay on him until your next Refresh Phase (6-2-3), so the second attack carries them too.
4. The price: in your next Refresh Phase he does not become active, so by default he cannot attack on your following turn.

So the card is a burst turn: two Leader attacks in one turn, then a quieter turn. That shapes everything about the deck. The bracketed words are explained in our One Piece keywords guide.

How the deck wants to play

1. Pick your burst turns

Two Leader attacks at 8000 or more can force your opponent to spend counters twice or take two Life. Do it when they are low on cards in hand, or on the turn you need to close the game. If you burst on the wrong turn, you give up your Leader attack on the next turn for nothing.

2. The green cards that cover the drawback

Green in the One Piece Card Game has always been the colour of resting your opponent's cards and setting your own cards and DON!! active. If something sets the Leader active again, the “does not refresh” cost mostly disappears. TCGplayer's pre-release listings already show 4 green OP18 cards that do exactly that (reported text, 16 October 2026):

• Gonbe (OP18-025, C, cost 1, 0 power): “[End of Your Turn] If this Character is rested, set your Leader as active.”
• Kokoro (OP18-024, C, cost 2, 0 power): “[Blocker] [End of Your Turn] You may trash this Character: Set your Leader as active.”
• Chimney (OP18-028, C, cost 2, 0 power): “[Activate: Main] You may rest 1 of your [Gonbe] and this Character: Set your [Monkey.D.Luffy] Leader as active.”
• Nico Robin (OP18-031, SR, cost 4, 5000 power): “[Opponent's Turn] If your Character would be removed from the field by your opponent's effect, you may rest this Character instead. [End of Your Turn] Set up to 1 of your {Water Seven} type cards and up to 1 of your DON!! cards as active.”

Read together: an [End of Your Turn] untap happens after your burst, so Luffy goes into your opponent's turn already active, and the refresh he skips costs nothing unless something rests him again first. Nico Robin works on Luffy because he is a Water Seven card. Chimney is different: it works in your Main Phase, so on the reported text it can untap Luffy in the middle of your turn, and its cost rests Gonbe, which is the condition for Gonbe's own end-of-turn untap. Treat that as a reading of pre-release text, not a tested line, and check Bandai's final wording and rulings first.

3. 5 Life and time

With 5 Life, Luffy starts one Life higher than the 4-Life multicolour Leaders in this set (Karoo, Franky, Saint Gunko and Spandam). That extra buffer means you can spend early turns building a board and DON!! instead of racing.

4. DON!! budgeting matters

Three DON!! on the Leader is a real chunk of your DON!! in the mid-game. Expect the deck to want cheap, efficient Characters around it, so the burst turn does not leave the board empty. The untap cards above help here: 3 of them cost 2 or less.

Cards to watch in OP18

The green OP18 cards above, priced as they are listed today. Before release these are pre-order listings, so treat them as a watchlist, not a valuation:

TCGplayer also lists a Manga printing of Nico Robin (OP18-031), the same card with manga-panel art.

Green Luffy vs the other OP18 leaders

• vs Franky (Green/Purple): Franky is about Stage cards: on the reported text, Stages in your hand get a +3000 Counter, and he can play a Stage of cost 5 or less for DON!! −1. It is a slower value plan; Luffy is the more direct, attack-focused green option.
• vs Karoo (Red/Blue): Karoo gives Rush to Characters that are both Animal and Alabasta. It is aggressive from the Character side, while Luffy's aggression comes from the Leader. See our Karoo leader guide.
• vs Saint Gunko (Purple/Black): Gunko plays a longer game built on playing Characters from the trash and DON!! ramp. See the Saint Gunko leader guide.

Where to buy OP18 for the green Luffy deck

• Pre-orders: The cheapest OP18 booster box pre-order we track in the United States today is US$284.99 (3 tracked sellers listing it), before postage. The OP18 pre-order board ranks every tracked store in your market, cheapest first, under eBay's and TCGplayer's listings. Bandai's MSRP is US$4.99 per pack.
• The Leader itself: The cheapest Luffy OP18-022 listing we track in the United States is US$9.99, and TCGplayer's market price is US$9.99. Before release these are pre-order prices, and they move daily. The Luffy leader page lists every printing.
• Box or singles: if you only want the green core, singles after release are usually cheaper than chasing them in boxes. Our booster box prices and set value concentration posts explain when a box is worth it.
• Local stores: browse the stores we track in each market. Bandai's page notes OP18 cards are legal at a local store's pre-release events from the pre-release date, a way to try the new Leaders early.
• Importing: sometimes the same box is cheaper abroad, even after postage.
• New to Leaders in general? Our cheapest leaders list is a budget starting point.